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Bigger Bonuses During Crises Can Aid Company Survival, Study Concludes
It may seem counterintuitive. But when a company is in crisis, more executive bonuses (at least of a certain type) might help promote a longer-term rebound and financial success. With that in mind, ...
CEO Perks Taking Different Forms: More Life Insurance Replacing Corporate Jets
For some executives, corporate perks are getting just a little less exciting. A number of major U.S. companies are cutting back on glamorous luxuries like personal jet use, country-club memberships, ...
RSA Insurance CEO’s First Year Compensation May Top $9 Million
RSA Insurance Group Plc Chief Executive Officer Stephen Hester, drafted in to turn around the U.K. insurer, may be paid as much as 5.6 million pounds ($9.3 million) for his first 12 months in the ...
Top U.S. CEOs See Compensation Increases Shrink
Big U.S. companies appear to have handed out smaller increases in compensation to their chief executives in 2013 than in 2012, mainly as a result of reduced grants of stock options, according to an ...
Swiss Voters Reject Strictest Executive Pay Limits in Ballot
Swiss voters rejected a proposal to limit executives' pay to 12 times that of junior employees yesterday, a measure that would have gone further than any other developed nation. The measure was ...
SEC Unveils CEO-to-Worker Pay Ratio Rule
U.S. corporations will need to disclose how their chief executive officers' paychecks compare with those of their workers under a proposal unveiled on Wednesday by the U.S. Securities and Exchange ...
Compensation Gaps in the Insurance Industry: University Research
As part of a research project focused on analyzing leadership demographics in the insurance industry, Saint Joseph's University examined compensation level for senior officers in various market ...
SEC Readies Rule on Disclosure of CEO-to-Worker Pay Ratios
Public companies would be required to disclose how much more their chief executives are paid than rank-and-file workers under a rule to be proposed next month by U.S. securities regulators, according ...